Supply Chain

Crystal gazing for the 21st century

06-Oct-2004

Enterprise resource planning and advanced planning systems can both help companies with their forecasting. But which one is best suited to you? Kathy Watson reports

Off-the-shelf warehouse management solution

06-Oct-2004

Westler Foods has installed a WMS following a decision to bring logistics back in-house

Choosing the best 3PL

06-Oct-2004

The recent acquisition of Tibbett & Britten (TBL) by Exel has raised no regulatory issues nor does it seem to have upset TBL customers in the...

Heinz to seek partners for NDC

06-Oct-2004

Heinz will be looking for other ambient food manufacturers to take up the spare capacity released at its highly automated national distribution...

Asda presses ahead with factory gate pricing

06-Oct-2004 By Rick Pendrous

Supermarket chain Asda is rolling out factory gate pricing (FGP), but unlike its arch rival Tesco it claims not to be putting its suppliers under...

Efficient consumer response at its best?

09-Sep-2004

It costs around 50p to get an average, ambient case of grocery products from the back door of a Tesco or Sainsbury regional distribution centre...

Survey to identify the pain points in the supply chain

09-Sep-2004 By Rick Pendrous

The food and drink industry's main 'pain points' in supply chain planning are likely to emerge when the results of a new industry survey are...

Technology helps you keep in touch

29-Jul-2004

I recently met a man who told me about the way his company had adopted a really innovative way of managing proof of delivery (POD) and updating...

Manufacturers push factory gate pricing up the chain

29-Jul-2004 By Rick Pendrous

Factory gate pricing (FGP) could soon become an approach commonly used by manufacturers in dealings with their own suppliers, following the success...

Warehouses need attention

15-Jul-2004

Why do companies not devote the same professional skills to managing their warehouses as they do to their factories?A supply chain manager for a food...

Grampian to centralise its chicken supply business

15-Jul-2004

Grampian Country Food Group plans to centralise its chicken business and make better use of IT systems to improve the communications throughout its...

Pork sausage study paves way for lean supply chain

15-Jul-2004

Savings of up to 20% are possible in the pork sausage supply chain, according to a new study from the Food Chain Centre and Red Meat Industry Forum,...

The key KPIs are what matter

30-Jun-2004

I remember a whisky distiller that had 36 key performance indicators (KPIs) which occupied a whole wall in the chief executive's office. They gave a...

Westler slashes ?dead stock' by taking control of warehousing

30-Jun-2004

Westler Foods has significantly reduced supply chain problems it had been experiencing by replacing a third-party contractor based in Coventry and...

UBF consolidates ambient distribution at Cannock

30-Jun-2004

Unilever Bestfoods (UBF) has selected Power Europe, an Exel company, to develop and manage a new automated national distribution centre at Kingswood...